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Monday, March 23, 2015

RIP Scott Arthur Allen

Scott-Arthur Allen, Acting Coach for Four Decades, Dies
at 76

The Hollywood Reporter

By Mike Barnes

March 19, 2015

Scott-Arthur Allen, an actor, talent manager and acting
coach for more than four decades, died on March 13 at his home in Nixa, Mo.,
after a long bout with cancer his wife, Elizabeth, said. He was 76.

In 1976, Allen founded what would become the Creative
Actors Workshop in Los Angeles. He then moved the enterprise to Springfield,
Mo., in 2002. His students included Sela Ward, Heather Locklear, Tea Leoni and
Leslie Hope and cast members on such films as Winter’s Bone (2011) and Super 8
(2011).

Allen also launched Gentle-Force Management and served as
president of the Talent Managers Association.

A native of Shreveport, La., Allen was a singer,
songwriter and piano player, who as a teenager fronted a band that shared
stages with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. After serving in the U.S. Marine
Corps, he came to L.A. and performed at The Troubadour and other venues before
turning to acting.

He had roles on such TV shows as Police Story,
Emergency!, The Bionic Woman and CHiPs and in the Blake Edwards film S.O.B.
(1981).

Allen and his wife formed the production company Creative
Actors Collective in 2010.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.